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...that its original form was not the motion picture. You will find it hard to believe that the part of Bill Sikes was not undertaker's establishment at which Oliver is set to work ever existed as other than a set in the J. Arthur Rank studio. The movie departs from the original in many ways, as far as the plot is concerned. It is condensed, of course, and reshaped. But not once does it depart from the spirit in which Dickens wrote the novel...
...anyone in Washington knew what was up, MacArthur had flown to Korea and offered to meet the enemy commander to arrange a cease-fire in the field. MacArthur added an implied threat: "The enemy therefore must by now be painfully aware that a decision of the United Nations to depart from its tolerant effort to contain the war to the area of Korea through expansion of our military operations to his coastal areas and interior bases would doom Red China to the risk of imminent military collapse...
...enemy, therefore, must by now be painfully aware that a decision of the United Nations to depart from its tolerant effort to contain the war to the area of Korea through expansion of our military operations to his coastal areas and interior bases would doom Red China to the risk of imminent military collapse...
...incident from those years dramatically illustrated the way that attitude worked. In 1945 George Marshall was getting ready to depart on his special mission to Chungking. He awaited the President's instructions, and the War Department submitted a draft of what it would advise. The War Department would promise Chiang Kai-shek U.S. support in establishing the Nationalist government's authority over all of China and Manchuria; it wanted the U.S. to use every means to get the Nationalists north of the Yellow River. Purpose: to let them, instead of the Chinese Communists, take the territories abandoned...
...McGraw, 70 years old, was taking a less active part in the company, and Strike was president. For his wartime job of building close to $175 million in war plants and bases, Engineer Strike became so well known that the War Depart ment sent him to Europe to supervise the rebuilding of German industry and the housing of some 4,000,000 homeless Germans. He did a bang-up job, and the Government sent him to Japan on a similar task. Later he became president of Overseas Consultants Inc., an eleven-firm, nonprofit combine which mapped out a $650 million...